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Sunday, January 15, 2012

Ebay still sells live animals

It has been almost exactly a year since Felissa Elfenbein of
Two Little Cavaliers posted about Ebay
selling live animals through their Classified Section. Ebay had previously
responded to complaints from animal lovers by disallowing the sale of live
animals through auctions, but they continued to allow animals to be sold
through classified ads.

Felissa’s concern was that Ebay was providing a backdoor for
puppy mills and other unscrupulous people to sell animals over the internet.
Pet lovers purchasing an animal over the internet have no way of determining
the health of the animal or the conditions under which it was raised. Many
fellow pet bloggers agreed, and a petition
was started on Change.org asking Ebay to stop selling live animals in their
Classified Section.

Six months later, Stephanie Feldstein from Change.org
released an update
on the petition. At the time, dozens of pet bloggers had supported the
cause and over 100,000 people signed the petition. And yet Ebay did nothing to change their
policy about selling live animals in Ebay Classified.

If you visit Ebay
Classified today, you will see lots and lots of listings of dogs, cats and
other animals for sale. Ebay has blatantly
disregarded the wishes of over 125,000 people who have asked them to stop
selling live animals. I have even been approached by one seller with a request
for a text link on my blog (buy puppies) that would link to Ebay Classified –
and I know other pet bloggers have been approached too.

Please do not let Ebay get away with ignoring this issue.
Pet bloggers and animal lovers must continue to put pressure on Ebay by
blogging, tweeting and posting on Facebook. Let Ebay know that we are NOT going
away!

12 comments:

Whenever I ask anyone why puppy mills are legal, the answer I repeatedly get is because its profitable. The same must be true here with ebay. It's so disappointing. Discouraging. Sad.PeggyBTC4animals.comPeggy’s Pet Place

My how time flies, and yet how sad that nothing has changed. I can't believe it's been a year!

This just means we have to work harder in the coming year to raise more awareness and engage eBay customers enough to have them stop buying. eBay won't do the right thing until money talks. Giving up is not an option.

Oh Vicki. An issue near and dear to my heart. I am still disgusted by eBay's decision to ignore people's requests to stop selling puppy mill dogs. Ugh!

Thank you for once again brining attention to this issue. I can only hope that legislation will hurt puppy mills directly so they can no longer operate. Then eBay won't be able to post puppy mills puppies and kitties for sale.

Donna - thanks for stopping by. Unfortunately, it seems that Ebay will not move on this issue without a lot of push back from their users. It is not enough to ask them to do the right thing - we have to hit them in the pocketbook!